January, 2011

As part of my simple Azure Assets application I first focussed on Pagination.  Although my test data was relatively small I knew that there were a number of categories for the data and many types which, if not paginated, could look daunting to the...

Over the past few months I've built up quite a library of Azure Assets. So as part of my learning plan I’m, building out a few sample applications to share these resources and present them using Azure as the underlying data source. In the next week or...

To celebrate the launch of Windows Phone 7, Australia's best developers can use their skills and create an app worthy of claiming the title of Windows Phone 7 App Champion. The fight is on ! Can’t wait to see the results….

Local Overview Local specialists demonstrate and promote best practices: Catherine Eibner : Windows Azure Storage Available for QLD business affected by the floods Tom Hollander : Responding to topology changes   Readiness & Resources Reading...

I've been saying it for a couple of months. Albeit a solitary wee voice, somewhat trying for a response : Simply moving servers to the cloud ignores architecture. I'm revising that statement today to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is not for software...

I read this today and thought very much worth sharing “Along with Telstra and our partner Productiv, we are pleased to offer a complimentary subscription to the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) to flood affected businesses that have...

Local Overview MCS and partners build government pledge site on Windows Azure: New national register for businesses to help with flood relief launched by Queensland Government   Readiness & Resources Reading: SQL Azure SqlAzure and a Best Practices...

Catherine Eibner has put together details , a couple of days ago, on the offer our local Windows Azure team has put together on how you can quickly backup your system images and data to the cloud. We felt this was a great way of providing free storage...